5 axis multisurf

[smokey_44]

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Will 5 axis multisurf always follow the u-v direction of the surface or can you change that without recreating the original surface ? The part is 5 axis walls with a curved surface for the floor , The floor surface was created on an angle to the walls and will not follow the direction of the walls. Sorry I cannot upload any file.

 

Other thing is I thought that 5 axis Flowline would follow the u-v and I also thought that Multisurf was kinda like 3d Parallel where you could set and angle for the cut ...guess I was wrong ?

 

Thanks for any help

[Colin Gilchrist]

When you go to select your surfaces, change your Cut Pattern type to "Box". You'll need to create a rectangular surface above or underneath the area you want to cut. Then, in the 'Cut Surfaces' section of the dialog box, choose "Comp to Surfaces" and select the surfaces you actually want the tip of the tool to compensate too.

 

When you choose "Surface(s)" option under 'Cut Pattern', you are telling the toolpath that you do want to follow the surface UV direction.

[Colin Gilchrist]

From the Help file:

 

Multisurface 5-axis toolpaths use a set of offset pattern surfaces (called the cut pattern) to calculate the flow of tool motion. Next, the toolpath compensates the tool tip to the offset surfaces and to selected compensation surfaces. Tool axis vectors can be modified to initiate or terminate through points, stay perpendicular to a plane, stay normal to the pattern surfaces, or follow a chain of curves. In the sample part below, a box cut pattern generates the flow of motion and the tool axis vectors. Then the tool tip was compensated to the part surfaces.